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DIRECTORY.] ""A R\VICKSHIRE. MONKS KIRBY. 189 Higginson George, carpenter North Warwickshire Water Co. (Wm. Smith William Harvey M.B.Durh.. Hodgekins William, chimney sweeper Russell, collector) M.R.C.S.En.g. surgeon, & medical Bunt Benjamin, blacksmith Parker James Henry, miller (water), officer & public vaccinator. Meri Hunt William Collis, farmer Meriden mill den district &:; medical officer to Jones Frank Benjamin, butcher Pearman Luke, farmer, Church farm the workh<mse & certifying factory Jones James Owen, baker Philpott Edmund, farmer surgeon, Darlaston hall Keatley Charles, boot maker Poynton George, farmer Tayl'Or Wm. farmer, Hollyberry end Kibble Thomas, farmer, Horn Wood Robinson John Edward, florist Thompson Frederick William, manu Leek Henry, farmer, Grange farm Rus.sell William, assistant overseer & facturer of archery goods & golf Melly Ernest Louis, nurseryman clerk to Parish Council club maker, car~nter & joiner, & Nicholds Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkpr Bus sell William (Mrs.), dress maker bowman to the Wo00n1en of .A.rden Nicholds John, carrier Shirley William John, cycle dealer Thompson William, blacksmith North Warwickshire Golfing Club Sidwell Zillah Iswbella (Mrs.), shop- Warmingham Edward, news agent & (M. L. Owen, sec) keeper, Post office boot dealer WestMary.A.nn(Mrs. ), Queen's Head!" .H MIDDLETON, in Domesday "Mideltone" and "Mil- Sep. 1638: in 1884 a hagioscope was discovered between dentone," is a scattered parish on the Staffordshire the chancel and the aisle, and also an arch supposed to border, 3 miles north-west from Kingsbury station on the cover the tomb of Dorothea Willoughby, a memorial Tamworth and Birmingham section of the Midland rail- brass recording her name appearing over it : the lectern way, 4! south-west from Tamworth, 6 north from Coles- was presented by parishioners and friends: the church bill, in the Northern division of the county, Tamworth was restored in 1876, at a cost of £1,Ioo, and affords division of Hemlingford hundred, Coleshill petty sessional 264 sittings, of which 113 are free. The register dates division, Tamworth union and county court district, from the year 1665. The living is a vicarage, net yearly rural deanery of Sutton Coldfield, archdeaconry of Aston value £roo, in the gift of Lord Middleton, and held and diocese of Birmingham. The Birmingham and Faze- since 1885 by the Rev. Robert Vere Hodge M.A. of Keble ley canal intersects the parish. The church of St. John College, Oxford. The charities amount to £84 ss. partly the Baptist is an ancient building of stone in the Nor- for the support of schools and partly for distribution man, Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting among the poor. Middleton Hall, about one mile east of chancel, nave, north aisles, south porch and an em- from the church, is an ancient mansion, in a well-wooded battled western tower of late Perpendicular date, con- park, and occupied by Egbert Duhamel de Hamel esq.: taining a clock and 3 bells: a carved oak screen divides it is the property of Lord Middleton, who is lord of the the chancel from the nave, and there are four stained manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed clay windows, one of which is a memorial to the Rev. Henry and gravel, with some little peat. The chief crops are Vere Hodge M.A. vicar (1836-84), and in the church are vheat. barley, oats, beans, turnips and seeds. The area some monuments of the Willoughby family, barons is 3,~83 acres of land and 31 of water; rateable value, Middleton and baronets, including Sir Francis Willoughby £4,386; the population in 1911 was 418. (166s), and Cassandra his wife, daughter of Thomas Ash End is half a mile south; Alien End 1! south-by Ridgeway, Earl of Londonderry (1675), his son, Francis west; Stoke End, three-quarters south-by-west; Hunt Willoughby esq. (1672), and Emma (Bernard) his wife, Green, half south; and Coney Burrow, 1 mile south-easi. and grand8on, Sir Francis Willoughby hart. (1688), and 1 Parish Clerk, William Dixon. a slab with effigies in brass and shields of arms, to Sir Post Office, Middleton. Mrs. Jane Simmons, sub-post Richard Bingham kt. justice of the King's Bench ( 1447- mistress. Letters received through Tamworth, arrive 76), d. 22 May, 1476, and was buried here, and to I at 8.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9.25 a.m. &. Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Baldwin Freville, of 5·45 p.. m. Canwell, 2£ miles distant, is the nearest Middleton, and widow of Sir Hugh Willoughby, of Wol- money order & telegraph office laton; also one to Lord Edward Ridgeway, second son of Public ElemPntary School (Council) (mixed), for 109 Thomas, 1st Earl of Londonderry of that family, d. 19 children; average attendance, 81; F. J. Hopkins, mstr de Hamel Egbert Duhamel, Middle- Gilman John, farmer, Hunt green Nield Joseph, farmer, Upper farm ton hall Gilman Joseph, farmer, Middleton fm Salt George, farmer, Hunt green Hodge Rev. Robert Vere M.A. (vicar) Hall Alfr~d (Mrs.), farmer, Wood frm Spiers Willia.m, farmer Hall Sidney, farmer, Ash End Step hen son Harriett (Mrs.), Green COMMERCIAL. Hand J oseph, farmer Man P .H Basnett Arthur, farmer, New park Henstock Wm. farmer, Church corner Taylor William, farmer, Lower farm Bird Matthw.frmr.&haulier,Church st Jackson Henry, farmer, Alien end Throup Richd. farmr. New House fm Bird Richard, shopkeeper Knight Fredk. farmer, Park Gate frm 'fidy Charles, farmer, Stoke end Clower William, farmer Lock Hampton Cordukes, woodman to Tidy Henry, farmer, Cross green Gaitskell Tom, farmer, Hill farm Lord Middleton MILCOTE, in Domesday "Melecote," a lordship, on only the sites can now be distinguished, a farm hou"e the border of the South-Western division of the county, with traces of a moat marking the spot. About 1865 formerly in the parish of Weston-upon-Avon, but in 1894 excavations were made in a field near Mileoote Hall, was, by Local Government Board Order 32,074, con- disclosing a large number of human skeletons lying stituted a separate parish. It has a station on the close to the surface. The area is 598 acres of land and Stratford-upon-Avon and Honeybourne section of the II of water; rateable value, £1,380; the population in Great Western railway, 107! miles from London, about 19:JI was 47· 2 miles south-west of Straford-upon-Avon, to which Letters through Stratford-upon-Avon, which is the union and county court it belongs, in the Stratford nearest money order &:; telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 and Snitterfield petty sessional division and Stratford a.m. & dispatched at 6. p.m division of Barlichway hundred. The land belongs to 30 Lord Sackville. One of its early possessors. Ludovic The children of this place attend the school at Clifford & Greville, built a castle on the manor, called "Mount Weston-on-Avon Greville,'' of which, and the ancient manor house near, Railway Station, Charles Matthews, station master Sarjeant James Edward, Milcote hall/ COMMERCIAL. IPearce Arthur Henry, farmer, Milcote Wilmott James, Greville mount Jordan Wm. Thos. frmr. Milcote hall Manor farm MILVERTON OLD & NEW, see Leamington. MINWORTH, see Curdworth. MOLLINGTON is a parish, once partly in this wholly in the latter and particulars will be found in county and partly in that of Oxford; has been constituted Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire. MONKS KIRBY, in Domesday "Chircheberie," is a white sandstone in the Gothic style, consisting of chan parish of considerable importance, through which a tri- eel, nave of five bays, aisles, two chapels, south porch, butary of the Aker flows, 2 miles north-by-east from and a massive embattled western tower, with pinnaclea Brinklow station on the Trent Valley section of the at the angles, containing a clock and 6 bells; it has North Western railway, 7 north-north-west from Rugby, formerly a very lofty spire, which, in remote times, about 10 east-by-north from Coventry and s! west from served as a landmark, but this was partly taken down Lutterworth, in the South-Eastern division of the county, about 1630, in order to save the expense of repairing it: Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, Rugby petty ses- the remainder, together with other portions of the sional division, Lutterworth union and county court dis. church, was blown down on the 25th December, 1701, trict, rural deanrry of Monks Kirby, archdeaconry of by a severe hurricane, in which the fleet of Sir Cloudes Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. 1 ley Shovel was also destroyed: an inscription on the Edith, dating from about xsoo, is a building of red and roof of one of the aisles partially records this calamity .